The High End of Toy Motivation in Dogs: Developmental Predictors and Relevance for Sport and Working Dogs - legend and comments

This file provides a detailed variable legend and explanatory comments for the raw dataset used in the study “From Play Motivation to Addictive-like Behaviour Towards Toys in Dogs: Developmental Predictors and Relevance for Sport and Working Dogs.” It includes definitions of all variable names, explanations of abbreviations, coding schemes for categorical responses, and scoring instructions for derived variables (including AB-Q components). These annotations are designed to facilitate the transparent interpretation and reproducibility of the dataset. The file contains no questionnaire items or raw responses; it only includes metadata and clarifying comments.